Sr Specialist - Security Analytics & Operations - IAM

Charles Schwab Corporation; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

Charles Schwab Corporation is seeking a Senior IAM Control Sustainability and Assurance Specialist to strengthen control effectiveness, resilience, and audit readiness across Schwab’s Identity and Access Management program. The role involves translating requirements into practical control expectations and independently assessing design and operating effectiveness.

You will collaborate with control owners, auditors, and leaders to identify risks, drive remediation, and implement repeatable

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Identity and Access Management, technology risk, control assurance, control sustainability, audit, compliance, or a related discipline.
• Knowledge of risk and control concepts, control design, operating effectiveness, evidence sufficiency, assurance testing, and issue remediation.
• Experience improving processes through workflow design, reporting, scripting, orchestration, analytics, or automation capabilities.
• Bachelor’s degree.

Responsibilities

• Translate audit, regulatory, policy, and standards-based requirements into practical control and evidence expectations while assessing design, execution, and operating effectiveness.
• Partner with control owners, auditors, and leaders to identify risks, evaluate evidence quality, and monitor remediation.
• Establish repeatable procedures, validation checks, health indicators, and assurance practices to improve consistency.
• Advance automation and process improvements across IAM control and audit workflows.

Skills

Identity & Access Management

Technology risk

Audit & compliance

Automation & scripting

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder communication

Independent work

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us challenge the status quo and transform the finance industry together. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

The Senior IAM Control Sustainability and Assurance Specialist will strengthen the long-term effectiveness, resilience, and audit readiness of controls across Schwab’s Identity and Access Management program. You will translate audit, regulatory, policy, and standards-based requirements into practical control and evidence expectations while independently assessing control design, execution, and operating effectiveness.

In this role, you will partner with control owners, technical teams, auditors, and leaders to identify risks, evaluate evidence quality, recommend corrective actions, and monitor remediation. You will help establish repeatable procedures, validation checks, health indicators, and assurance practices that improve consistency and identify control degradation early.

Your work will also advance automation and process improvements across IAM control and audit workflows, reducing manual effort and strengthening accuracy, traceability, and resilience. Success requires sound judgment, thoughtful challenge, clear communication, and the ability to adapt priorities based on risk and business needs.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Identity and Access Management, technology risk, control assurance, control sustainability, audit, compliance, or a related discipline
• Demonstrated knowledge of risk and control concepts, control design, operating effectiveness, evidence sufficiency, assurance testing, and issue remediation
• Working knowledge of identity lifecycle management, access provisioning and deprovisioning, periodic access certifications, exception management, and remediation processes
• Experience improving processes through workflow design, reporting, scripting, orchestration, analytics, or other automation capabilities
• Ability to analyze complex requirements, ask effective challenge questions, and provide clear recommendations to technical, audit, regulatory, control, and leadership stakeholders
• Strong judgment, attention to detail, ownership, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a deadline-driven environment
• Ability to work independently and proactively with minimal guidance
• Bachelor’s degree

Preferred Qualifications

• CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, or an equivalent certification
• 3+ years of experience in technology risk, supervision and controls, compliance, or audit
• 2+ years of experience in financial services
• Knowledge of NIST, ISO, FFIEC, GLBA, PCI, or related risk, regulatory, and industry requirements
• Experience using governance, risk, and compliance or workflow platforms such as IBM OpenPages or RSA Archer
• Experience partnering directly with auditors and supporting audit requests, assessments, and remediation activities

In addition to the salary range, this role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.